Rules of incorporation for the Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor.
Society for Encouraging Industry and Employing the Poor.
[Boston : s.n,
1754]
"A list of the names of the gentlemen who continue to promote by the subscriptions, the Society for Encouraging Industry, and Employing the Poor."--p. 7-12.
Dated on p. 12: Boston, July, 1754.
Established for the promotion of linen manufacture, as a means of providing for the poor.
Title from caption title, p. 4. Text on p. 1 begins: Whereas it is found by experience that this province is not adapted for raising sheep ..
ESTC
Evans,
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